Moonlit chase ends in zoo road rescue and wedding plans
A jealous suitor buys a secondhand runabout to woo Alice on a moonlit Beach Drive. A mad lion from the Zoo pursues them, the driver dodges a headon collision, crashes into bushes, and Fred Wilson’s car meets the lion head on. The danger passes and the couple return home to resume their tale and plan a honeymoon.
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Fred Wilson
Fred
Miss. Steadman
Alice
Main Street
Wood Road
Alphonse’s
Delightful Guests Overspread Suburban Summer Home
A subordinate clerk living at a suburban residence hosts numerous summer visitors on a fixed hundred dollar monthly stipend. His wife loves nature and dislikes housekeeping, leading to extra expenses and worn finances as guests linger through autumn. Eventually guests depart with compliments, leaving the clerk to balance debits and credits each payday, the hundred dollar surplus vanishing from the ledger.
Uncomfortable English Hotels
Excerpt from Howells in Harper's recounts a night in a damp English hotel. The narrator lights two candles and finds a wall cavity with a covert fire while shivering in a subterranean chamber. A ghost walks the room, its movements muffled by the cold, then vanishes as the specter is frozen out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Howells
Harper's
Man with Tuberculosis and Complications in New York Hospital
In Bellevue Hospital New York a painter named Job Keeley, hurt from a fall, is treated for skull fracture and severe illness. He suffers tuberculosis with bronchitis, arteriosclerosis, presbyopia, water on the brain, and painter's colic. Also noted is Warwick New Jersey’s old applejack distillery and a worm import from England before the Revolutionary era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Job Keeley
United States
Warwick
N. J
England
Danish Sidelight on Lord Stanley and King Christian of Denmark
The article notes Lord Stanley of Alderley’s disdain for Americans and a London party on Independence Day where he declined to attend a banquet for the American Society. It mentions Count Ruben Levettan, wife of the Swedish minister, and references a long deadlock between Denmark’s monarchy and its legislature, with Liberals holding a city majority.
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Lord Stanley
Alderley
England
Ndon
American Society
Ruben Levettan
Beriity
Christian
Denmark
Danish Royal Maneuvers and Astor Lineage in Global Amidst Court Notices
The article traces Danish cabinet friction with the king over funds, noting Copenhagen politics and a fire at Christinneborg in 1884. It links the Astor family to continental nobles, recounting John Jacob Astor’s origins and a French line. It reports Leopold I’s knighthood for Mrs Ellen M Henrotin and Serge de Witte’s Russian marriage, highlighting social elite dynamics and court attention.
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Polkething
House of
Conserva Representatives
Iee
Copenhagen
Christinneborg
Legis
Istinn
Aminborg Palace
William Waldorf Astor
Astor
Coll
Aea
Don Pedro d
France
Joan Diacyd Astorg
Finguenot
Rhine
Johann Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor
Baden
Leopold
Belgium
Ellen M. Henrotin
Henotin
Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Charles Menrotin
Chicago
Order of Leopold
Leopold I
Serge de Witte
de Witte i
St. Petersburg
Village Smith Converts to Motor Car Age
Under chestnut shade the Village smith, once bending to forge and hammer, sits in ease before a roadside inn. He seized a chance when motor cars failed, charging fourteen prices, leaving behind his forge for a new trade in the age of automobiles.
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Automobile Advocate
Che Smith
Wayside Inn
Chinese the First Paper Makers
The first real paper was made by the Chinese. Papyrus used by Greeks Romans and Egyptians was not paper but plant piths cut into strips laid side by side and pressed into a sheet.
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Hon
Yller
King Christian OF Denmark
Wellsville
Geer Manufacturing CO
Exchange Place
A. J. Root Co
Medina, Ohio
Masons
Hanlin
National Photographic Chemical Company
Lith St
Penn Ave
Washington, D. C
International Harvester Co
I. H.C
H. C
International Harvester Co. of America
Monroe Street
U.S. A
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